Garment hanger



Patented Aug. 6, il

l Claim.

This application relates to vgarment hangers and more particularly to garment ers of the type useful for heg such garments es trousers.

For an understanding of the garment or trouser hanger hereof, reference should be had to the specification as follows and .to the appended drawing. In this drawing:

Fig. 1 shows the hanger as ii hung on a horlzontal clothes pole;

Fig. 2 is a side view of Fig. l.

'I'he multiple trouser hanger hereof comprises a support bar i@ and a plurality of parallel, spaced, free-ended hanger bars il connected thereto, the assembly being generally shaped like a comb with the support har simulating the hack of the comb and the hanger har simulating the teeth of thecomb. Between the hanger hars are slots or spaces Il? which are designed to accommodate snugly the free ends ci pairs of trouser legs introduced into these spaces through thev free ends of the slots between the hanger bars. The trouser legs received in the hanger space are indicated bythe letter T.

On the upper surfaces of the end ones of the hanger bars are hook eyes It journalling hooks i5 aranged to hang the hanger on a horizontal clothes pole i6, with the hanger horizontal and with the hanger bars below and extending across the clothes pole. The connection between the hooks I5 and hook eyes IG is a journal connection enabling the hooks i'to be swung to the positionof Figure i for hanging the hanger on a clothes pole'or down tlat, for shipment of the hanger. Y 85 The hanger bars are arranged with nonparallel non-vertical sides l1 defining enlarged spaces i8 at and above the slotsl2 between the adjacent edges of the hanger bars Il for receiving cuil's of the trouser-legs disposed in and de- 40 pending through the slots l2.

The hanger hereof is extremely simple in con-1 struction, does not require the use of springs,

Jaws, clamps, wire loops or the like commonly (Ci. 21h-M3).

found in present .Ysno hers, may he made more inexpensively than present mo multiple hangers, may he made more inexpensively than a supply oi present known :wir hangers constituting the equivalent in capacity oi the multiple hanger hereof, provides a simple method e o hanging trousers, is particularly useful ce cause it hangs from a clothes pole found in practically every closet, is readily attachable to d detachable from such cloth pole, but does not V have to he removed from the clothes pole to perl0 mit the hanging or removal of trousers, may he manipulated for ew'- or removal oi trousers Without disturbing other trousers then han on the hanger, and requires no manipulation oi the hanger itself d the act ci' 1 fr i. remo a pair of trousers.

Now having described the multiple Vhanger hereof, reference will he to the claim arated relatively by slots, the support bar and the hanger bars forming a rigid unitary structure, the lslots or spaces between the hanger bars being designed to accommodate snugly the tree ends of pairsof trouser legs introduced into the spaces through the free ends of the slots between the hanger bars, and hooks at the end hanger bars for hanging the hanger on a horizontal clothes pole, with the hanger horizontal, and with' the hanger bars below and extending across the clothes pole, the hanger bars having nonu parallel non-verticalsides whereby theslots or spaces between them have narrow parts and wider parts above the narrow parts, the wider parts receiving cuis of the trouser legs disposed in and depending through the narrow parts of the slots.

JOHN PEARL. 

